"Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts..." — Mark Vonnegut
"Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts..."
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29 Quotes by Mark Vonnegut
Mark Vonnegut has 29 quotes on this site.
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What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they…
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None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.
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Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?
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Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.
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The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children.…
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Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and…
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And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for…
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I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers…
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When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at…
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My only hope was to be polite.
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As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be…
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Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
— Joseph Addison
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
— Alfred Adler
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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